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Anyone Can Adopt Efficient Practices

So what’s meant by “managing the process”? To my former/future boss it meant no more than “work out what has to be done, when, and do it”. And there may be little need to add more to the definition, except to offer the view that time-and-task management is not a skill, or a talent, or even a craft. It is, indeed, a process. There is nothing innate about efficiency. Anyone can adopt efficient practices – we just have to set ourselves up to be efficient, follow that through, and then turn that process into a habit.

Just as the modern kitchen is organized to allow meal preparation in minutes – if so desired – and just as the modern bathroom allows for quick-turnaround ablutions in the morning, so we can organize ...